Improvement in glove-fasteners



7- A. KINCAID. GLOVE-FASTWEB.

Patented Jan. 25, 1876.

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JOHN A. KINOAID, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE OORNING BUCKLE COMPANY.

IMPROVEMENT lN GLOVE-FASTENERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 172,633, dated January 25, 1876; application tiled July 15, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN A. KINGAID, of Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts, have invented Improvements in Glove-Fasteners, of which the following is a specification:

This invention relates to an improvement in fasteners for kid and other gloves, and similar purposes; and consists in a lever' having a bearing in an eye adapted to be connected with one side of the glove-wrist, in combination with a hook or equivalent, as described, adapt-ed to be secured to the other part of the glove-wrist, whereby the lever engages the hook, and in its passage to a horizontal position draws the edges of the slit in the wrist of the glove together, and holds them in such position until the lever is again turned out- Ward.

Figure l' represents a glove with my improved fastening attached, and shown as holding the wrist of the glove together. an enlarged sectional View of such fastening. Fig. 3 represents the lever as just engaged with the hook prior to drawing the wrist part together. Fig. liis a top view of a modified form of fastening; Fig. 5, a section, and Fig. 6 an under-side View thereof.

The partsa a, forming the wrist of a glove, b, or the upper parts of a glove without a wrist, and where provided with a slit, need to be held together to cause the glove to t the hand properly and remain in position. This improved fastening is-composed of a lever, c, pivoted between its ends at d to an eye, c, secured to the part a of the glove by means of prongs f, passed through the glove, and a washer underit, where the prongs are clinched, or it may be secured, as in Fig'. 3, by an eyelet, a.

The hook part his provided at its outer end with a hook, t', (see Figs. 2 and 8,) or with a hole, j, Fig. 6, to permit the engagement ofthe perforated or hooked end of the lever c with the end of the hook part h, and'ths hook part in Figs. 2 and 3 is shown as secured to the Fig. 2'is glove by an eyelet, a', this being the preferable way of connecting both e and l1, with the glove. `The lower part of the hook h is preferably provided with a projection, l, to retain the end of the hook-piece elevated, so that when the 1ever and hook-piece are engaged, (see Fig. 3,) and the parts are moved, as denoted by the arrows, and brought to the position shown in Figs. l and 2, the fulcruni of the lever will rest below the point of engagement of the hookpiece and lever, and the tendency ofthe lever is to remain as shown in Figs. l and ig.

In Figs. 4 to 6 the eye e is provided with a shoulder-piece, m, to stop the movement of the lever c, it in said figures being provided with a small hook to entera hole in the hookpiece; and the Lipper part of the lever and the shoulder m may be formed on the same level, presenting a smooth, plain surface.

These fastenings may be made of gold, silver, brass, or other metal, orbe nickel, or silver, or gold plated, and may be of any desired size, and the end of thelever c will preferably extend a little beyond the portion of the hook-piece, against which it rests when in action, so as to allow the nger to be easily caught under the .end of and to raise the lever c, to unhook the fastening or detach the lever from the hookpiece.

I claim- 'A glovevfastener, substantially as described, composed of hook and eye pieces, adapted to be connected with a glove by means of eyelets or prongs, and a lever pivoted to the eye-piece, and adapted to engage the hook-piece and draw, fasten, and hold the glove-ed ges together, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN A. KINGAID.

Witnesses:

G. W. GREGORY, S. B. RIDDER. 

